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THE ARMY THAT GOT AWAY

THE GERMAN 15. ARMEE IN THE SUMMER OF 1944

Autore: Jack Didden, Maarten Swarts

Codice: 355034

€ 100,00

Attraverso oltre 900 foto inedite e 100 mappe, il volume racconta la storia della 15a armata tedesca dal suo inizio nel 1942 al suo arrivo nei Paesi Bassi alla fine di settembre 1944. Un must per modellisti, appassionati di carri armati e appassionati di storia militare in generale. Con questo titolo si conclude la trilogia degli auturi dedicata all'esercito tedesco in Occidente.

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The authors: Jack Didden and Maarten Swarts are delighted to announce that the third (and final) volume dealing with the German army in the West during the second half of 1944 is now almost ready to go to print and should be available in September. THE ARMY THAT GOT AWAY tells the story of the German 15th Army from its inception in 1942 to its arrival in the Netherlands at the end of September 1944. (This is where it connects with the other two books from the same authors, ‘Autumn Gale’ and ‘Kampfgruppe Walther’.)  It follows the format of the previous books and like them should appeal to modellers, tank buffs and fans of military history generally. Also one chapter deals with the fighting in Normandy since the army was involved there until the end of June and so should appeal to anyone interested in that campaign since it contains a lot of new information. This also goes for the main story, never told anywhere before, which fills the gap in the books about World War Two in the West that somehow always skip from Normandy to Market Garden as if nothing relevant happened in between. The book has 528 pages, about 100 maps and over 900 pictures, most of them never published before.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 The Lull before the Storm (15 February 1942- 5 June 1944)

2 Into battle (6 June – 20 June 1944)

3 An army in waiting (21 June – 25 August 1944)

4 New Masters and a New Threat (25 – 28 August 1944)

5 Supercharge (29 August 1944)

6 Grave Danger (30 August 1944)

7 Disaster on the Somme (31 August 1944)

8 Into the breach (1 September 1944)

9 A golden opportunity? (2 September 1944)

10 Operation Sabot (3 September 1944)

11 Antwerp, the Turning Point (4 September 1944)

12 Change of Plan (5 September 1944)

13 Break Out! (6 September 1944)

14 Fall Back! (7 September 1944)

15 The end of a phase (8 September 1944)

16 Firming up (9 - 11 September 1944)

17 Slowing down (12 - 16 September 1944)

18 New Assignments (17 - 23 September 1944)

Conclusions

Sources

Appendix I 15. Armee Order of Battle 1943-1944

Appendix II 15. Armee changes in Order of Battle

Appendix III Divisions

Appendix IV Security Units

Appendix V The Scheldt Crossings

Separate texts:

The Army Headquarters in Tourcoing (Chapter 1)

The Montes-Gassicourt bridgehead (after Chapter 3)

The French Resistance (after Chapter 7)

The Flying Bomb Threat (after Chapter 8)

The Pocket at Mons (after Chapter 9)

German Forces in Antwerp (Chapter 11)

Frogmen in the Night (after Chapter 11)

The Channel Ports (after Chapter 14)

The Channel Guns (after Chapter 14)

The Air Effort over the Wester Scheldt (Conclusions)

The peregrinations of an artillery unit (Conclusions)

Allowing an army to escape (after Conclusions)

Lingua

INGLESE

Illustrazioni

Oltre 900 foto e 100 mappe

Pagine

528

Misure

21 x 30

Rilegato

SI

ISBN